Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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